I just found this litlle interview over at The Canadian Press.
NEW YORK – Wide-eyed teens excitedly watch as “Gossip Girl” star Blake Lively films a scene with co-star Penn Badgley.
Take after take in New York’s Stuyvesant Park – a perfect setting with its stately gates and statues – the youthful onlookers linger on this cold autumn day, providing some evidence that the low-rated CW series holds interest for its target demo: BlackBerry-holding, DVR-using Gen-Yers.
Lively, who got her big break as a soccer-loving teen in 2005’s “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” plays Serena van der Woodsen on the glossy soap, based on the popular young-adult novels about rich Manhattan private school kids whose scandals and trysts are dishy fodder for an anonymous blogger.
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